Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Torah (תורה)

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 5404
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5404
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

The Pentateuch, with vowel-points and accents, accompanied by masorah magna and parva in the margins and between columns. Prefixed is Mahberet ha-tigan.

Notes

• Edge losses to damp/mould throughout, but repaired before rebinding.
   
• Damp/mould stains at edges; usage stains.
   

Extent

144 folios; 144 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Boxed. Spine: 'Pentateuch. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 5404.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Complete hard-point ruling and pricking visible. Headings and initial words in square large characters. The beginning of each pericope marked in the margin by large ornamental 'samekh'. Masorah magna generally occupies three lines at the top and four lines at the bottom of a page. A number of masoretic notes and marks at the end of each books. Centre-marks and middle verses marked. Folios 2v-3r: masoretic notes in the form of ornamental designs.

Script

Yemenite square and semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Avraham ben Daṿid ben Se῾adyah Alṭiyul: inscribed, folio 143r.

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Table of contents

• fol. 3v — Maḥberet ha-tigan
• fol. 3v — מחברת התיג'אן
• fol. 28v — Genesis
• fol. 57r — Exodus
• fol. 81v — Numbers
• fol. 98v — Leviticus
• fol. 122v — Deuteronomy